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Chicago examiner vol vii no 7 a m tuesday december 29 1908 pricf onf cent ueliver.a by carritt r ru^n uine i m oenti p?r montll book sharps got 412,000 and drove man to suicide state theory philadelphia banker embez zled to pay 100,000 on de luxe editions patten loss was small defendants questioned on many deals one of woman caught for 250,000 by far the most startling develop ments in the trial of s t war field and w n cooper charged with swindling mrs james a patten out of 30,000 in a book deal cropped out yesterday in the form of ques tions leveled at the defendants in di rect examination by assistant state's attorney popham one of these questions intimated that cooper and his associates were responsible for the suicide of a phila delphia banker named goodwin in 1905 by swindling him out of 50,000 or 100,000 and then putting him into a compromising position with a wom an to prevent him from escaping the false obligations they had heaped upon him embezzled to pay for books goodwin is said to have died by bis own hand after embezzling money from his firm to meet the payments on the gor geous editions de luxe which littered the basement of his home but his family never knew that he had been cheated or that there was a woman in the case other questions sought to bring admis sions from cooper that he had told mc farland he had participated in the swindle o mrs abhy s blodgett of new york oat of 100,000 that he had confessed to being a party ro swindling mrs sanborn of boston out of 50,000 that he hi.d con fessed to participating in the scheme which defrauded a mr lee of boston out of 90,000 lee consulted a former attorney general of massachusetts aoout the mrtter but was informed that he could not prosecute the swindlers for the reason that they had involved him so cleverly in their invest ment sci,eme that he was equally guilty with them questions are overruled all these things were brought out only in questions which were overruled by judge mcsorely upon the protest of mr forrest attorney for the defense the stale abandoued them only temporarily announcing that it would endeavor to cast more light on these vitally important side issues of the fatten case when mcfarland is recalled in rebuttal here are two of the questions which were asked of cooper but not answered hi 1 you not say to mcfarland that you and warfield fisher scott wilson and g'lter i i::l.i rs of he fl-itiro gang u cludlng newbcsj'n and keller and others of the new york crowd soaked goodwin of philadelphia for 0o,0c or 100,000 n the fall of lil<;5 on nn investment scheme frame-up and that as a par of that game there was introduced to goodwin a woman who got dim into a compromising situa tion and that this fact was held as a weapon over him so that he would not prosecute you and further that this man goodwin misappropriated the funds of tie bank with whi^i h was connected to meet his payments on these book contracts and that he finally committed suicide because of these troubles guardianship for woman did you not nt that time and place say to mcfarland that the flatiron gang dur ing the latter part of 1905 sold to mrs abby b blodgett of new york about 100,000 worth of stuff on the resale frameup scheme and that her family iu order to avoid payment to the book men protected her by letters of guardianship in the usual way and had her adjudged ln k.-.ne dispatches from new york state that mrs abby b blodgett purchased 130 vol umes of dickens for 130,000 and that her son w t blodgett brought suit to show her mental incapacity in may 1904 one newspaper of that date announced that the aggregate of mrs blodgetfs book purchases was 250,000 the booksellers resisted the action of the son to recover 40,000 but the case was settled quietly out of court warfield and cooper flatly denied all the incriminating statements that mcfar land who turned state's evidence made ln regard to them both testified under oath that such part as they took in the affair was taken in the full belief that the busiuess had been obtained by legitimate methods in the course of the day's hearing the works of president roosevelt were brought into the discussion an entirely new and perfectly innocent interpretation was given to the term investment plan and an at tempt was made by the state to introduce sensational evidence in regard to alleged operations of the flatiron gang in new york boston rnd philadelphia roosevelt works good investment mr cooper saiu attorney forrest es ing the first of the defendants to take the stand wlion mcfarland and warfield uame to your house in brooklyn were you gallant rescuers find marchesi's terror is only of catching cold pnma donna causes commotion in hotel by forbidding husband and manager to approach her mnie blancle marcliesl who made her first american appearance in concert at st paul sunday evening created a com motion in the lobby of the audltoriam hotel yesterday afternoon by violently re pulsing her husband and her manager be cause they were suffering with colds spectators thought the prime donna was in danger and some were ready to fight don't come near me she exclaimed waving her hands and starting back as her manager j s gordon approached but my dear ," began her husband the baron coccomskl you stay away too shouted the singer don't dare come any nearer either of you i a hotel detective came running up and mme marches explained they have colds they sneeze i will get a cold and lose my voice and that would be dreadful at a distance of twenty feet gordon an nounced when the train would start for new york the ginger instructed him and her husband to follow her to the station in another carriage 1665 stradivarius is found in old trunk chicagoan discovers instrument which may be worth 25,000 in unpacking an old trunk yesterday henry mau of 10322 arenue h south chi cago a young man employed in the hege wlsch car works discovered a battered old violin which mny be worth to him any where from 3,000 to 525,000 he believes it to be a genuine stradivarlus and he will hare it examined by experts to determine whether or not bis surmise is correct his father and mother have been dead for years henry remembered the old violin in a haay eort of way but he had never heard the name of the maker and did not suppose the instrument was worth more than 10 a friend who knew something about violins wag with him yesterday when he came across the violin in the old trunk he told him its probable value inscribed on the instrument was antonius stradi varias cremonensis faciebat anno 1065 kaiser ousts officer who o k.'d interview privy councillor dismissed for london telegraph's story berlin dec 28 privy councillor klehmet of the foreign office has been displaced he was the officer who ex amined and passed the interview with the kaiser which was later published in the london telegraph and caused such a considerable stir in germany and abroad he is succeeded according to an announce ment made to-day by w von stumm now first secretary of the german embassy at london woman of 83 tries to drown herself tired of life only explanation of leap into lake after living for eighty-three years mrs sarah wentwortn 9627 exchange avenue south Chicago yesterday decided that she was tired of life and attempted suicide in calumet park at one hundred and third street by throwing herself in the lake she was rescued by arthur hennessy a park policeman i was tired of life and want ed to die was all the aged woman would say pope pius has relapse says pontiff's doctor vatican's physician declares how ever there should be no alarm home dec 28 considerable apprehen sion was felt in clerical circles to-day over the report that the tope had snffered a relapse dr petacci who has been at tendidg the pontiff said that his holiness had had a slight relapse but that his con dition was not alarming beef trust must tell of r.r claims traffic men questioned to prove heavy payments are rebates claim fraud in charges superintendent dowling of morris & co before grand jury throughout day harry c dowling traffic superintendent for morris & co consumed the entire time of the federal grand jury yesterday in the beef trnst hearing he will continue to day and when he is excused four other traffic officials of the corporation will fol low him these facts were taken yesterday as con clusive proof that the government's hope of convicting the members of the meat combine is through tie avenue of railroad rebating evidence in-tho vaults of ih cierfe of the united staces district attorney's office were de posited yesterday for use as evidence some thousands of individual flies of claims col lected from the railroads by morris & co for ostensibly legitimate damages these the packers and railroads will have to ex plain to the satisfaction of the jury the burden of proof being practically on them to show that the rebates were not unlaw ful new witnesses summoned the witnesses who were subpoenaed yes terday and ordered to be in readiness as soon as dowling finishes are e f bisbee traffic manager for morris & company j t lannigan his assistant h a timmins head accountant for mor ris & company e w schmutz adjuster of claims and fixer of values of shipments for morris & company the names of these witnesses were pro cured despite the secrecy of the district attorney and the secret service department who have established a system of suppres sion never before resorted to in the history of even federal prosecutions around the door of the grand jury cham ber and circled about the witnesses the operatives of the government swarmed warding off questioners by force of their compact formation when dowling left the room with his papers he was whirled into district attorney sims office the cen ter of a flying wedge of secret service men that would have made coach stagg open his eyes the purpose of this sort of guard as given for publication was to guard the papers that he carried dowling carried morris documents dowling was accompanied t>y men who carried two big telescope vaiises bearing on their small ends the emblem x m & c0 signifying the morris house when it was nelson morris & co there were no books in evidence when the reporters caught a glimpse of the in terior of the grand jury room in the after noon they saw the two canvas boxes open and within was a myriad of white en velopes each containing the correspond ence and other documentary record of each transaction for a long time in which mor ris & company received a rebate from any railroad as far as the company's accounts revealed such rebates within the juryroom assistant district attorneys robert w childs and james k wllkerson to^k posts ct either side of dowling who sat with set face gazing into the countenances of a full panel of twenty-three grizzled and whiskered farm ers who compose the jury summon men from outside plants traffic men at the st louis kansas city and st joseph branches of morris & co will be served with subpoenas to-day and will start at once for Chicago so that the inquiry may include both ends of the principal routes in controversy as regards the payments of rebates tinimons as head accountant for the srm will hare to show that the rebates from the railroads are all represented on the books as money receipts schmutz will be an extremely important witness his duties are to flx the values of cattle and meats in matters of claims he will have to show if he can that the claims were not excessive and that the railroad did uot practice illegal rebating ! bv allowing many times the real damages one of the principal mysteries still cen ters about b b mitchell chief freight ' traffic manager of the new york central map of district affected by earthquake and photographs taken after 1905 shock prsztf or 3<2io its sz**rz cf's'jcszy â€” " jr â€¢ z^meta cxÂ£7t3fisw pittsburg to have 14-story church combined office building and house of worship to evade penn grant pittsburg pa dec 28.-that modern business ingenuity can outgeueral even the iron-clad rules laid down by william penn n;is shown here to-day when the trustees of the first united evangelical protestant gorman church of pittsburg made public the front elevation of what promises to be the most unique church building in the world it is a fourteen-story office build ing nnd church combined the church of course being in the middle with offices rising all around it * it appears that many many years ago this plot of ronud was donated for church purposes the restriction being that it must always and ever be used for church purposes several churches l>ave come and gone on this most valuable plot at sixth avenue and smithfleld street in the heart of the downtown district while skyscrapers have gone up all around it the terms of the giant prevent the congregation from sell ing and rebuilding in the suburbs ns it could do at great profit so the h:t;>py thought was struts that an office building and a chsreh could be combined the front elevation of the new building shows a frontage on smlthfield street with a beautiful cathedral syle chnrch front in the center the church effect arises with the building for about seres etorles and then permits the office part to continue skyward there is to be a great chime of bells in the church and the whole edifice will cost not less tuau 1,500,000 the plans call for one of the most elab orately fnrni*Â«:ed office buildings in the city the board of trustees say they took legal advice before taking this step lu erecting an office buildiug also on property set aside for church purposes on!y 17,500 blaze in an old loop landmark fire at 1 20 lake street frightens hotel patrons firo last niyht threatened to destroy the four-story building at 120 lake street a landmark of the downtown district the bnildbg is occupied on the tirst floor by the knuuber-miller-penner company dec orators supplies and on the second floor by the central noonday lunch club the loss to the knauber-miller tenner company is estimated at 513.000 and the luucii club jo the damage on the building wan 2,000 guests of the hotel tremont ad joining on the wost were frightened by the lire traffic on twenty car lines was tied up for almost aa hour on the way to he fire chemical company no 8 collhlej with tin bose wagon of engine company no 42 at klnzle and clark streets and killed one in bose company's horses neither farwell wars on society card play law and order league agent stops euchre game on south side from saloons and disorderly houses arthur burrage farwell president of the Chicago law and order league has turned his attention to women's clubs on the south side ivho have been making a prac tice of playing cards for prizes of value already he has closed three such games one which was raided by bis agents yes terday afternoon was being couduc-ted in elite hall sol nnd mw fifty-first street no arrests were made but the woman who was superintending the game was forced to promise that she would not opeu it asain several women of prominence were pres ent at this party '" said mr farwell some of them did not realize that they were gambling at a place whk-h was little better than an ordinary public gambling resort and when the fact was brought home to them they were deeply shocked you may say that i intend to close up all these sanies it was brought to my at tention some time ago that the hyde part women were gambling for cut glass and painted china very extensively i find that not only the hyde park women are doing it but respectable women all over the city and i am going to stop it if i can to gamble for china or cot glass is just ms rabcb gambling as to gamble tor 1,000 sometimes euchre is the method of gam bling sometimes it is bridge whist the women pay from ifi to so cents for their score cards in the hope of winning one of the handsome prizes offered most of the games are conducted in puiilir halls but we have discovered oue which is run in a prite home a thirty ninth street and cot tage grove avenue mr larwell said that his agents closed a game last week where the women were so bellicose it was necessary to call in : i i > - police he asserts that most of the games comprise ten or twelve tables manv a south side woman has slocked her china closet with the loot of these games bam mr farwell busse in 375,000 deal for Illinois coal lands mayor and other chicagoans make purchases in vermilion county bloomington 111 dec i-'s mayor fred busse frank peabody george getz and other chicagoans have purchased 1,600 acres of coal rights in vermilion county from wlldum bridget and george t buckingham paying ijitw.ooo for the coal rights and 150 an acre for 100 acres of surface laud the company will open two drifts along the st louis branch of the Chicago a kasteru Illinois road and in three months plan to raise j,wo tons of coal daily drillers will commence work at once to ascertain the coal conditions ct the in view of street cracksmen spend hours at work in lighted jewelry store new york dec 28 daring cracks man stole 20,000 worth of jewslry and 0,000 in cash from the store of oscar c jackie bgo third avenue early to-day the safe was only twenty feet from the front windows and a policeman could have seen the robbers at work on its door which fronts toward the street a flre a block away created great excite ment in the neighborhood between 1 and 3 o'clock nnd the police believe that the robbery war committed then the most modern drllle and cold chisels evidently were used a gasjet was left burning directly over the safe and was still burning when jackie arrived to-day the thieves probably made a hasty exit for they left behind a suit ease belonging to jackie filled with l,poo worth of silverware they fled by a baek stairway leading to third avenue the only jewelry except that of trifling value which jackie did not lose was sl,i>oo worth of diamonds there were also 1,300 worth of watches left for repairs entrance to the building was made by removing four irou bars on a rear cellar vindow standing on boxes the thieves used an oiled saw to lessen the noise and carefully cut away the flooring and opened up a hole into the shop then a ladder was placed through the opening they pried and chiseled until the face of the safe lock had been removed then rhe rest of the mechanism of the combina tion was forced back into the safe proper that task alone must have consumed sev eral hours there are living aparimc"uts above the store and the burglars of neces sity had to work quietly after getting the dial out of the wuy the burglars so manipulated wires and pincers that the bolts were thrown open townsmen aid morse bath me dei ways anil means for obtaining bail and a new trial for charles v morse of new york convicted of misapplying bank funds will be consid ered by citizens of bath mr jlorse's birth place ac a mass meeting to be held to 20,000 dead many hurt in quake in sicily shock followed by tidal wava devastates three provinces of italy nearly destroys messina catania inundated and smaller cities and towns suffer severely thousands are homeless pope prays for victims as government rushes battle ships to rescue london dec 29 5 a m twenty thousand person lost their lives in the earth quake the daily mail's correspond ent at catania sicily wires half of messina was destroyed a dispatch from rome reports that the minister of marine has re ceived a dispatch from the torpeflc boat spica dated marina de nica tera calabria 5:25 p m stating that many were killed at messina hundreds injured and a great num ber of buildings destroyed rome dec 28 â€” an earthquake at 5 o'clock this morning spread death ruin and panic throughout the department of cala bria and over the island of sicily several thousand were killed in mes sina alone it is estimated the three provinces of calabria cozenza catanzaro and reggio which form the toe of italy's boot and teem with people were devastated messina sicily's second commercial city with 90,000 people was partly destroyed many persons were killed and hundreds of buildings fell catania on the east coast of sicily with 140,000 inhabitants was inun dated by the tidal wave which fol lowed the shock the smaller sicilian cities and towns and particularly the villages suffered severely communication cut off owing to the fact that the telegraph and telephone wires were almost com pletely destroyed it is impossible ia obtain even an approximation of the number of lives lost or the damage done the fate of the whole region within the zone of the earthquake is un known but reports received here up to a late hour indicate that the havoc has been greater and the destruction of life and property more terrible than italy has experienced in many years certainly the area shaken is greater than in 1905 when the same section of the kingdom suffered the uncer tainty of the fate of tens of thousands fills all italians with the deepest dis tress and alarm rush aid on battleships five battleships have been ordered to messina the ruined city and should reach there tuesday morning two regiments are also on their way to the city reggio the capital of the province of that name is also reported destroyed four hundred persons were taken from messina in the steamers wash ington and montebello to catania where they were carried ashore to a temporary hospital on a hillside the captains of the ships reported there were many more injured in messina and that the majority of the popula tion stood in need of food five steamers which had escaped damage by the tidal wave then put out from catania and still are in messina in albi 2,000 persons are homeless there are reports that tidal wavea swept the sicilian coast for fifty milae the tfave in catania wrecked se^emji continued on sth page 2d column continued on sth page 3d colurtfn m weather forecast m i Chicago and vicinity partly |? a \ sf cloudy tuesday and wednesday m \* fresh winds mostly from west to r3 vl southwest x three great treats at 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Chicago examiner vol vii no 7 a m tuesday december 29 1908 pricf onf cent ueliver.a by carritt r ru^n uine i m oenti p?r montll book sharps got 412,000 and drove man to suicide state theory philadelphia banker embez zled to pay 100,000 on de luxe editions patten loss was small defendants questioned on many deals one of woman caught for 250,000 by far the most startling develop ments in the trial of s t war field and w n cooper charged with swindling mrs james a patten out of 30,000 in a book deal cropped out yesterday in the form of ques tions leveled at the defendants in di rect examination by assistant state's attorney popham one of these questions intimated that cooper and his associates were responsible for the suicide of a phila delphia banker named goodwin in 1905 by swindling him out of 50,000 or 100,000 and then putting him into a compromising position with a wom an to prevent him from escaping the false obligations they had heaped upon him embezzled to pay for books goodwin is said to have died by bis own hand after embezzling money from his firm to meet the payments on the gor geous editions de luxe which littered the basement of his home but his family never knew that he had been cheated or that there was a woman in the case other questions sought to bring admis sions from cooper that he had told mc farland he had participated in the swindle o mrs abhy s blodgett of new york oat of 100,000 that he had confessed to being a party ro swindling mrs sanborn of boston out of 50,000 that he hi.d con fessed to participating in the scheme which defrauded a mr lee of boston out of 90,000 lee consulted a former attorney general of massachusetts aoout the mrtter but was informed that he could not prosecute the swindlers for the reason that they had involved him so cleverly in their invest ment sci,eme that he was equally guilty with them questions are overruled all these things were brought out only in questions which were overruled by judge mcsorely upon the protest of mr forrest attorney for the defense the stale abandoued them only temporarily announcing that it would endeavor to cast more light on these vitally important side issues of the fatten case when mcfarland is recalled in rebuttal here are two of the questions which were asked of cooper but not answered hi 1 you not say to mcfarland that you and warfield fisher scott wilson and g'lter i i::l.i rs of he fl-itiro gang u cludlng newbcsj'n and keller and others of the new york crowd soaked goodwin of philadelphia for 0o,0c or 100,000 n the fall of lily men who carried two big telescope vaiises bearing on their small ends the emblem x m & c0 signifying the morris house when it was nelson morris & co there were no books in evidence when the reporters caught a glimpse of the in terior of the grand jury room in the after noon they saw the two canvas boxes open and within was a myriad of white en velopes each containing the correspond ence and other documentary record of each transaction for a long time in which mor ris & company received a rebate from any railroad as far as the company's accounts revealed such rebates within the juryroom assistant district attorneys robert w childs and james k wllkerson to^k posts ct either side of dowling who sat with set face gazing into the countenances of a full panel of twenty-three grizzled and whiskered farm ers who compose the jury summon men from outside plants traffic men at the st louis kansas city and st joseph branches of morris & co will be served with subpoenas to-day and will start at once for Chicago so that the inquiry may include both ends of the principal routes in controversy as regards the payments of rebates tinimons as head accountant for the srm will hare to show that the rebates from the railroads are all represented on the books as money receipts schmutz will be an extremely important witness his duties are to flx the values of cattle and meats in matters of claims he will have to show if he can that the claims were not excessive and that the railroad did uot practice illegal rebating ! bv allowing many times the real damages one of the principal mysteries still cen ters about b b mitchell chief freight ' traffic manager of the new york central map of district affected by earthquake and photographs taken after 1905 shock prsztf or 3<2io its sz**rz cf's'jcszy â€” " jr â€¢ z^meta cxÂ£7t3fisw pittsburg to have 14-story church combined office building and house of worship to evade penn grant pittsburg pa dec 28.-that modern business ingenuity can outgeueral even the iron-clad rules laid down by william penn n;is shown here to-day when the trustees of the first united evangelical protestant gorman church of pittsburg made public the front elevation of what promises to be the most unique church building in the world it is a fourteen-story office build ing nnd church combined the church of course being in the middle with offices rising all around it * it appears that many many years ago this plot of ronud was donated for church purposes the restriction being that it must always and ever be used for church purposes several churches l>ave come and gone on this most valuable plot at sixth avenue and smithfleld street in the heart of the downtown district while skyscrapers have gone up all around it the terms of the giant prevent the congregation from sell ing and rebuilding in the suburbs ns it could do at great profit so the h:t;>py thought was struts that an office building and a chsreh could be combined the front elevation of the new building shows a frontage on smlthfield street with a beautiful cathedral syle chnrch front in the center the church effect arises with the building for about seres etorles and then permits the office part to continue skyward there is to be a great chime of bells in the church and the whole edifice will cost not less tuau 1,500,000 the plans call for one of the most elab orately fnrni*Â«:ed office buildings in the city the board of trustees say they took legal advice before taking this step lu erecting an office buildiug also on property set aside for church purposes on!y 17,500 blaze in an old loop landmark fire at 1 20 lake street frightens hotel patrons firo last niyht threatened to destroy the four-story building at 120 lake street a landmark of the downtown district the bnildbg is occupied on the tirst floor by the knuuber-miller-penner company dec orators supplies and on the second floor by the central noonday lunch club the loss to the knauber-miller tenner company is estimated at 513.000 and the luucii club jo the damage on the building wan 2,000 guests of the hotel tremont ad joining on the wost were frightened by the lire traffic on twenty car lines was tied up for almost aa hour on the way to he fire chemical company no 8 collhlej with tin bose wagon of engine company no 42 at klnzle and clark streets and killed one in bose company's horses neither farwell wars on society card play law and order league agent stops euchre game on south side from saloons and disorderly houses arthur burrage farwell president of the Chicago law and order league has turned his attention to women's clubs on the south side ivho have been making a prac tice of playing cards for prizes of value already he has closed three such games one which was raided by bis agents yes terday afternoon was being couduc-ted in elite hall sol nnd mw fifty-first street no arrests were made but the woman who was superintending the game was forced to promise that she would not opeu it asain several women of prominence were pres ent at this party '" said mr farwell some of them did not realize that they were gambling at a place whk-h was little better than an ordinary public gambling resort and when the fact was brought home to them they were deeply shocked you may say that i intend to close up all these sanies it was brought to my at tention some time ago that the hyde part women were gambling for cut glass and painted china very extensively i find that not only the hyde park women are doing it but respectable women all over the city and i am going to stop it if i can to gamble for china or cot glass is just ms rabcb gambling as to gamble tor 1,000 sometimes euchre is the method of gam bling sometimes it is bridge whist the women pay from ifi to so cents for their score cards in the hope of winning one of the handsome prizes offered most of the games are conducted in puiilir halls but we have discovered oue which is run in a prite home a thirty ninth street and cot tage grove avenue mr larwell said that his agents closed a game last week where the women were so bellicose it was necessary to call in : i i > - police he asserts that most of the games comprise ten or twelve tables manv a south side woman has slocked her china closet with the loot of these games bam mr farwell busse in 375,000 deal for Illinois coal lands mayor and other chicagoans make purchases in vermilion county bloomington 111 dec i-'s mayor fred busse frank peabody george getz and other chicagoans have purchased 1,600 acres of coal rights in vermilion county from wlldum bridget and george t buckingham paying ijitw.ooo for the coal rights and 150 an acre for 100 acres of surface laud the company will open two drifts along the st louis branch of the Chicago a kasteru Illinois road and in three months plan to raise j,wo tons of coal daily drillers will commence work at once to ascertain the coal conditions ct the in view of street cracksmen spend hours at work in lighted jewelry store new york dec 28 daring cracks man stole 20,000 worth of jewslry and 0,000 in cash from the store of oscar c jackie bgo third avenue early to-day the safe was only twenty feet from the front windows and a policeman could have seen the robbers at work on its door which fronts toward the street a flre a block away created great excite ment in the neighborhood between 1 and 3 o'clock nnd the police believe that the robbery war committed then the most modern drllle and cold chisels evidently were used a gasjet was left burning directly over the safe and was still burning when jackie arrived to-day the thieves probably made a hasty exit for they left behind a suit ease belonging to jackie filled with l,poo worth of silverware they fled by a baek stairway leading to third avenue the only jewelry except that of trifling value which jackie did not lose was sl,i>oo worth of diamonds there were also 1,300 worth of watches left for repairs entrance to the building was made by removing four irou bars on a rear cellar vindow standing on boxes the thieves used an oiled saw to lessen the noise and carefully cut away the flooring and opened up a hole into the shop then a ladder was placed through the opening they pried and chiseled until the face of the safe lock had been removed then rhe rest of the mechanism of the combina tion was forced back into the safe proper that task alone must have consumed sev eral hours there are living aparimc"uts above the store and the burglars of neces sity had to work quietly after getting the dial out of the wuy the burglars so manipulated wires and pincers that the bolts were thrown open townsmen aid morse bath me dei ways anil means for obtaining bail and a new trial for charles v morse of new york convicted of misapplying bank funds will be consid ered by citizens of bath mr jlorse's birth place ac a mass meeting to be held to 20,000 dead many hurt in quake in sicily shock followed by tidal wava devastates three provinces of italy nearly destroys messina catania inundated and smaller cities and towns suffer severely thousands are homeless pope prays for victims as government rushes battle ships to rescue london dec 29 5 a m twenty thousand person lost their lives in the earth quake the daily mail's correspond ent at catania sicily wires half of messina was destroyed a dispatch from rome reports that the minister of marine has re ceived a dispatch from the torpeflc boat spica dated marina de nica tera calabria 5:25 p m stating that many were killed at messina hundreds injured and a great num ber of buildings destroyed rome dec 28 â€” an earthquake at 5 o'clock this morning spread death ruin and panic throughout the department of cala bria and over the island of sicily several thousand were killed in mes sina alone it is estimated the three provinces of calabria cozenza catanzaro and reggio which form the toe of italy's boot and teem with people were devastated messina sicily's second commercial city with 90,000 people was partly destroyed many persons were killed and hundreds of buildings fell catania on the east coast of sicily with 140,000 inhabitants was inun dated by the tidal wave which fol lowed the shock the smaller sicilian cities and towns and particularly the villages suffered severely communication cut off owing to the fact that the telegraph and telephone wires were almost com pletely destroyed it is impossible ia obtain even an approximation of the number of lives lost or the damage done the fate of the whole region within the zone of the earthquake is un known but reports received here up to a late hour indicate that the havoc has been greater and the destruction of life and property more terrible than italy has experienced in many years certainly the area shaken is greater than in 1905 when the same section of the kingdom suffered the uncer tainty of the fate of tens of thousands fills all italians with the deepest dis tress and alarm rush aid on battleships five battleships have been ordered to messina the ruined city and should reach there tuesday morning two regiments are also on their way to the city reggio the capital of the province of that name is also reported destroyed four hundred persons were taken from messina in the steamers wash ington and montebello to catania where they were carried ashore to a temporary hospital on a hillside the captains of the ships reported there were many more injured in messina and that the majority of the popula tion stood in need of food five steamers which had escaped damage by the tidal wave then put out from catania and still are in messina in albi 2,000 persons are homeless there are reports that tidal wavea swept the sicilian coast for fifty milae the tfave in catania wrecked se^emji continued on sth page 2d column continued on sth page 3d colurtfn m weather forecast m i Chicago and vicinity partly |? a \ sf cloudy tuesday and wednesday m \* fresh winds mostly from west to r3 vl southwest x three great treats at considerable expense the sunday examiner has obtained the rights to publish the words and music of the following im mensely popular songs on january 3 â€” i don't want to marry you sung by miss clover land in nearly a hero at the garrick theatre on january 10 â€” i was a hero too sum bernard's greatest hit in nearly a hero at the gar rick on january 17 â€” almost the best college song ever written from charles dillingham's success ful production by 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